St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-22

this new source of-wealth. Efforts were put
forth by the commissioner of immigration to
obtain a complete list of the manufac-
turing interests so far established, but
the result has not been satis-
factory. Only partial list can be
presented as follows: Creameries %; cigar
factories, Sc; sash and door manufactories,
81 tow mills, z: wagon and carriage manu-
factories, 10; cheese factories, 10; shirt fac
tories, 2; book binderies, z; boiler works, 5
gas works, 4 paint factory. l; foundries, 8;
ufactory, L; woolenm mill, i; oil mill, | brick
yards, 20; packing houses. 81 electric light
plants, o; railway machine shops, 10; street
railways, A; pillow factories, 8; breweries, Is;
bottling works, II; planning mills, 8; cornice
works, 3; saw mills, g.; artificial stone manu-
factories, p ore reducing works, z; vinegar
manufactures, l; marble and granite polish
ing works, l., cracker factories. L; cooper
shops l ; besides number of other indus
tries not classified. Labor of all kinds,
skilled and unskilled, finds ready employ
ment at good wages. The constant improve
ment, going on, in the way of building
requires the labor of larger
force of mechanics than is at all
times TO be commanded. The construction
each year of several hundred miles of rail
road, the public improvements OF the larger
cities, and the extensive agricultural interests
of the territory give employment to an army
of day laDorers. A Labor strike is some
thing unheard of in Dakota; nor has there
OF work or meagerness of wages.
CONDITION OF THE INDIANS IN THE TERRITORY.
Dakota leads all the states and territories
of the Unionr excepting of course the In
dian Territory in the numbers of her Indian
population, and the extent OF her Indian
reservation, although she is not SO proud of
this distinction as she is of her prestige in
other directions. According to the latest
Official reports, 26, S47, ,1O5 acres, or nearly
of Tennessee, Ohio, Virginia, Ken
tucky, Indiana, South Carolina, Maine or
West Virginia, more than four times that of
Maryland, Vermont or New Hampshire, eight
times that Of Delaware, or thirty times
greater than the area OF Rhode Island, is set
apart for the use Of 30,076 Indians. If the
existing reservations were divided equally
among the Indians of Dakota there would
be 1872 acres for every man, woman and
ch lid.
L addressed letter to each of the Indian
agents in the territory, requesting the infor-
nation you desire concerning the condition
OIL the Indians, and annexed are the replies
received. will say briefly that the progress
of the Indian is not satisfactory, nor is their
farming, after having been upon the reserva-
lion tWentyeight years, all that it should be.
Nor are they as far advanced in civilization
as might be expected after so long reserva-
ton life.
In morals they are probably as free from
vice as any OF the Sioux under the care of
the government, intemperance unknown
among them. There are i, III Indians of all
ages, about 500 adults, about 400 on claims
or small patches. l have the honor to refer
you to the honorable commissioners report
for 1886 i'll which will be found my annual
report, which gives full statement of their
condition at the time, not changed
very much except i'll increased average
of land in cultivation, Land the temporary
troubles now existing Oh the reservation
no OIItn of w OLD oh iaf.
and u small following Of persons who desire
to take allotment of land III seyeralty, which
eliminated last and this month in driving the
surveyor and his party from the field, threat
ening persons who received their certificates
with violence to persons and prep
erty. These overt acts and threats have
resulted in bringing about tifiy-tive
soldiers from Fort Randall well officered to
the agency to preserve order and protect the
surveyor i'll his work, as also protect persons
and property of the Indians who from their
own free choice, take their land in severalty.
1t is believed that the influence of the troops
will be salutary and that there viii not be any
serious difficulty in maintaining order aad
atfording the necessary protection.
j. +. KlNxEYil
SIssEToN AGENCY, Oak, Sept. IL 1857
The Indians on this reservation have re-.
ceived but little aid from the government for
the last five years hence their farm machin-
cry is about worn out and they need more
teams in order to farm successfully.
Some of them are making good living
farming, but this is not generally the ease,
but it is the lack of means to do it with more
than for want of energy.
As community they are very civil and
well disposed. There are two good schools,
so all can avail themselves cf the advantages
of an education. Most of them are sending
their children to school.
We are now alloting the lands in severalty,
and they are about all taking them. | am re
pairing their houses as well as. can with the
lumber allowed, but their houses are not IS
good as they ought TO be.
The efforts that have been put forth by the
churches and schools have greatly improved
this people in their habits and morals L
think that they will make good average citi-
ZenS. j. ID. JENKINS.
Crow CREEK AND LOWER BRULE AGENCY.
Sept. IL, 1857 have under my charge at this
agency about $500 Sioux Indians. They are
peaceably inclined toward the whites, and
rarely quarrel among themselves.
They are making good progress in agricul-
tural pursuits and learning to appreciate an
English education for their children.
The policy of the present administration
in urging the land in seyoralty'' plan and i'll
encouraging schools for teaching English
and diScouraging the use of their Indian Ian
guage must in due time make self-supporting
cltlZens Of these people. believe the pro
greSs of the Indians throughout the territory
is very commendable and highly satisfactory.
W. W. ANDERSON.
Fort BERTHoLD, D. It. AGENCY, Sept. 10,
1SS7.-Our Indians numbered at tie last
annual census in June last, 1.2S9, as fol-
lows: Arickaries, SOL; Gros Fentres, 502
and Mandans 2S6. l consider that they have
during the past year more than ever before
made rapid stride toward self-support and
civilization, and they are now in condition
to continue to advance year by
year.. cultivating constantly desire to
be like the whites, an independent and
Stain frl IN
realize that the time has arrived when they
must care and do for themselves and that this
can only be done by their own effort, willing
to do all in their power to accomplish this
end, providing they are properly encouraged
and assisted.
The custom of these Indians formerly has
been to live huddled together in village Of
about 300 log huts, occupying an area of
about half mile square, SubSiSting them
selves, in addition to the rations issued 10
them by the government, by hunting, and
cultivating small patches of corn. Within
the past three years this whole mode of
almost complete idleness and super
stition to one of industry and desire for
something higher. The village where they
have lived for a, hundred years has been by
farms of choice selections of land along The
Missouri and have commenced in real earnest
an agricultural life. In December last they
ceded to the United States 1.93o.000
to about one third its original size for a com
pensation of $4,000 per year for ten years;
thus showing the sincerity of their desire to
want civilization, as this money is to be eX-
pended for them in their welfare and civiii-
Zation.
The agreement not reaching congress
through the president till January Il, 1887.
came too late for action at the last session.
1t is earnestly hoped, however that congress
will at its next session promptly ratify this
agreement in order that the Indians may com
ply with its provisions and share
in its benefits, which will do more
for their advancement in civil
lied pursuits than anything which has been
done for them in the past, the provisions of
which are such that predict in a very few
years that they will become sufficiently ciyi-
lied to take an active part as citizens i'll the
development of the territory.
ADRIAN j. GIFFoRD